Cutchen



(No Model.)

I 0-. W. M GUTOHEN.

SHTOVE GRATE.

No. 418,294. Patented Dec. 31,1889..

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CHARLES w. MCCUTOHEN, OF PEEKsKILL, ASSIGNOR TO FINCH & co, or NEW YORK, N. Y. I

GRATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,294, dated December 31, 1889.

Application filed March 26 1889. Serial No. 304,770- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES WV. MC- CUTCHEN, of Peekskill, in the county of \Vestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Stove-Grate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifi- IO cation, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a stove-grate having my invention applied thereto, and

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same taken on the line 00 a: of Fig. 1.

The invention willfirst be described in connection with the drawings and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents an annular main frame or support for the grate, which frame may be held in the stove in the ordinary or in any approved manner.

Upon the frame A is placed the annular ings Cb b for the gudgeon c d of the grate C. The gudgeon d reaches to the front of the stove, and is made square at its outer end for the application thereto of a wrench or hook for convenience in reciprocating the frame B and grating 0 upon the main frame A for raking the fire and for tilting the grate C for dumping the-contents of the stove into the ash-pit.

In the center of the grating C is formed an 3 5 opening C, in which is fitted a sliding auxiliary grate D. This is formed with the flanges ff, and is held upon the flanges f f, and is provided with the rod 72, for operating the auxiliary gratethat is, for sliding it out and in for opening and closing the opening C. The rod h is in line with the axis of the grate O, and in this instance is parallel with the gudgeon d, so that the said rod will not interfere with the tilting of the grate C.

By constructing the grate as described the auxiliary grate D greatly facilitates the rak- 7 ing of the stove, as the same may he opened for working out clinkers without dumping, and it in no manner interferes with the tilting of the grate for dumping the whole contents of the stove.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The main grating 0, formed with diametrical gudgeons c c, and having a central opening 0 and parallel flanges f f in said openin g, in combination with the auxiliary grating D, having flanges f to rest upon the flanges f and the handle or rod h, attached to the auxiliary grating and projecting therefrom in line with the axis of the main grating 0, substantially as described.

CHARLES NV. MCCUTCHEN.

Witnesses:

LEVERETT F. CRUMB, SAMUEL E. WOLFE. 

